xiv, 510 pages 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-493)

Part I : Prologue -- Theravada Buddhism : an anthropoligcal problem -- Part II : Buddhism as an ideological system -- Nibbanic Buddhism : a religion of radical salvation -- Kammatic Buddhism : a religion of proximate salvation -- Kammatic Buddhism : the central concept of merit -- Kammatic Buddhism : the key doctrine of Karma -- Apotropaic Buddhism : a religion of magical protection -- Esoteric Buddhism : a religion of chiliastic expectations -- Part III : Buddhism as a ritual system -- The Buddhist cultus : its generic attributes -- The ceremonial cycle : calendrical rituqals -- The ceremonial cycle : life-cycle rituals -- Crisit rituals -- Part IV : Buddhism as a monastc system -- Monasticism : the normative structure -- Monasticism : the social structure -- The monk : recruitment structure -- The monk : character structure -- The Sangha and the state -- The status of the monkhood in Bermese society -- Part V : Buddhism and the world -- Buddhism and the world : a critique -- Buddhism and Burmese society

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